#Thoreau

[hamletthedane]

I hate the “Thoreau’s mom did his laundry” criticism so much, it drives me crazy.

Henry Thoreau did not go to Walden Pond because he thought it would be a fun adventure. He went into the woods because he was deeply depressed and burnt out. He was running from the horror of his brother and best friend recently dying in his arms, and the haunting memory of causing the Fairhaven Bay fire. His friend Ellery Channing literally gave him the ultimatum of either taking some time off to write and think, or else be institutionalized.

I think Thoreau’s mother saw her depressed son choosing to retreat into a small cabin in the woods, and was worried about him. Of course she did his laundry - just as Ralph Waldo Emerson probably brought him firewood and bread. These were not chores of obligation to support a “great” man, but services of love to help their deeply depressed 28yo son and friend.

And if you ask me, there’s a lesson in that - to “suck out the marrow of life” and “live deliberately,” one must also accept help offered from the people in your life who love you. There is no true transcendentalism or individualism without love and friendship behind it.

#Thoreau #he was 28!!

[geopsych]

“This earth which is spread out like a map around me is but the lining of my inmost soul exposed.”

~ Henry Thoreau

#henry david thoreau #quotations #my inmost soul exposed #thoreau

[galaxygermdraws]

Got to infodump about Super Paper Mario today and thus decided to draw it again. Tried doodling Mario in a hoodie because I’ve never done it and it’s cute. Also Luigi in a makeshift outfit repurposed from the Mr. L outfit since. He really wouldn’t have any other clothes to wear. Looks good in green and black not gonna lie. Reminds me of SMB3.

(Reblogs with tags/comments are appreciated. Thankyuuuu)

#super paper mario #super mario #super mario bros #mario mario #luigi mario #tippi #thoreau #spm #ask to tag #germdraws #germ draws #mario is very unwell and luigi is confused

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

Henry David Thoreau

#henry david thoreau #thoreau #civil disobedience #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #life #literature #writer #books #psychology #write #art #artist #idea #ideas #individual #individuality #individualism

[sad-nooting-tuna]

It's perfectly normal to hyperfixate on a Pixl from a 2007 mario spinoff game with like ten lines of dialogue.

#thoreau #thoreau pixl #pixl #spm #super paper mario #thoreau spm

[encountersltd]

may 2022

throw

#encountersltdart #super paper mario #thoreau #pixl #i planned to draw the others but forgot #maybe i'll get back to them #thoreau needs his buddies!

[nekonotaishou]

Lure coursing image for Tokotas. Tally ho!

#art #my art #tokotas #arpg #miralta #lure coursing #thoreau #niv #grigori

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Henry David Thoreau #A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers #Thoreau #imperfections #humanity

[saint-daimon]

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life..."

-Walden, Henry David Thoreau

#river #lake #nature #nature black and white #forest #trees #black and white edit #b&w post #b&w #b&w aesthetic #water #quotes #henry david thoreau #walden #thoreau #philosophy quotes #nature quotes #life

[poll-position]

#poll #polls #quotes #quote poll #henry david thoreau #thoreau

[thekoopalingsandstuffs]

☆Welcome to OP's brand new hyperfixation☆

I've been replaying Super Paper Mario lately! And... I don't know how... I swear these guys all only have like, three lines max. But...

I am currently obsessing over the pixls!!! Just look at the goofy little guys!!!

My intrusive thoughts are telling me to make a whole alt account for these idiots at 1am, and it is taking every bit of will to get me to not do this. But I reeeally want to. But I won't.

Completely unrelated...

#super paper mario #pixls #thoreau #boomer #slim #barry #carrie #thudley #cudge #piccolo #dottie #dashell #fleep

[geopsych]

"We seem to be passing, or to have passed, a dividing line between spring and autumn, and begin to descend the long slope toward winter."

—Henry Thoreau on the 15th of July, 1854.

Edit: We’ve reached the peak! I think he’s talking about starting to see red leaves on a few things, seeing swallows lined up on wires chattering as if discussing the trip south, tree leaves turning darker, and cicadas starting to sing. The freshness of spring is gone. Next stop: autumn.

#henry david thoreau #thoreau #seasons

[jadeseadragon]

Newell Convers Wyeth (American, 1882-1945),"Thoreau Fishing (at Walden Pond)," 1936, oil on hardboard, 38½ x 33 inches; private collection. [source]

#n.c. wyeth #newell convers wyeth #henry david thoreau #thoreau #walden #walden pond #fishing #water lilies

[paperpeachy]

mistress in another castle

#super paper mario #mimi #pixls #thoreau #princess peach #boomer #slim #my art

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

Henry David Thoreau

#Henry David Thoreau #thoreau #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #life #literature #writer #books #psychology #write #art #artist #idea #ideas #civil disobedience

[courtingwonder]

“And the cost of a thing it will be remembered as the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.” —Henry David Thoreau (American philosopher and poet, 1817-1862)

#quotes #psychology #critical thinking #problem solving #thoreau #philosophy #analysis #living #reason #reasoning